June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013 - Segment 3 - We have our weekly round table on national headlines, including NSA surveillance, the Senate's debate over immigration reform, and the conflict and impending U.S. involvement in Syria.
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June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013 - Segment 1 - We speak with Ben Crump, attorney representing Trayvon Martin's family, and Edward Wyckoff Williams, contributing editor to The Root, about the trial of George Zimmerman. A jury has finally been selected, and we discuss the larger implications of the outcome of this trial.
June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - Documentary filmmaker Kelly Anderson discusses her film My Brooklyn about gentrification in her neighborhood, which is showing tomorrow night in Baltimore.
June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013 - Segment 5 - On Sound Bites, we continue our dialogue on the Farm Bill, which has been passed in the Senate but is still under debate in the House, look at the Baltimore Free Farm's fight to keep lots from being sold by the city, visit a new farmer's market in Baltimore, Union Graze, and hear a recipe for spaghetti aglio e olio.
June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013 - Segment 4 - Robert McChesney provides his commentary on the NSA surveillance scandal and the "military digital complex" he says aided in the process. McChesney is the author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy.
June 18, 2013
June 17, 2013-Segment 1-The growing controversy between Maryland State Department of Education, local school systems, and the Maryland State Teachers Association (MSEA) over teacher evaluations.
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 3 - We get an update on the George Zimmerman trial from Corey Dade and Edward Wyckoff Williams, Contributing Editors for The Root. George Zimmerman is on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida.
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from Retired Major Neill Franklin and Don Rojas. They join us to discuss next Monday's "Day of Direct Action at the White House to Call on President Obama to End the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration and Invest in America's 'Dark Ghettos,'" which is organized by the Institute of the Black World.
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 5 - In one of our Peabody Award-winning Just Words segments, we meet Gloria Knight, a state-contracted daycare provider who is unable to afford health insurance.Gloria discusses the benefits she thinks would stem from unionizing child care providers in Maryland.
June 10, 2013
June 10, 2013-Segment 2-Our panelists will share their perspectives on the Bradley Manning trial.
June 10, 2013
June 10, 2013-Segment 1-We take a look at the NSA's (National Security Agency) surveillance program which includes spying on Americans's phone documents.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss the ACLU study released this week that reveals racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests, and lists Maryland as fourth in the nation for such arrests. We will examine implications of the study as well as America's drug policy.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a recent survey of more than 1,000 African Americans - an overwhelming majority of whom indicated that they were satisfied with their lives. The survey, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health, serves as the basis for the new NPR series, "The View from Black America."
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - We kick-off another live episode of Sound Bites with a debate over the Johns Hopkins University study on arsenicals in chicken, and we look at Monsanto in the news with Tom Laskawy and Tom Philpott. Then, Blain Snipstal reads a Langston Hughes poem that highlights the importance of African Americans in agriculture and farming.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, about his new book on the U.S. drone wars, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's time for our weekly news round-up on the latest headlines including the controversy surrounding the George Zimmerman trial for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Washington Redskins name, US Attorney General Eric Holder.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have an update on George Zimmerman and his second-degree-murder trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin from Jenée Desmond-Harris, staff writer and White House correspondent for The Root.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 2 - Jesselyn Radack and Kevin Zeese update us on the trial starting next week for US Army soldier Bradley Manning, who was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of handing over classified Army documents to whistle blower Wikileaks.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - We open a dialogue between two cities facing tough decisions on the future of education and schools: Chicago and Baltimore. Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that 50 schools in the district will be closed, and Baltimore City's plan for the coming decade includes closing underutilized schools and placing emphasis on renovations and new school construction.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 3 - May 29 marks the 162nd anniversary of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. Lea Gilmore joins us for a reading of that speech. Then, we discuss African American women and feminism with Lea Gilmore, dream hampton, Jodi Kelber-Kaye, and A. Adar Ayira.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 2 - Journalist, author, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University Farai Chideya joins us to talk about the lack of diversity in media.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - Medea Benjamin joins us to talk about her new book "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control." A prominent anti-war activist and co-founder of Code Pink, Benjamin made headlines last week when she disrupted President Obama's foreign policy speech.
May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we discuss urban farming with Five Seeds Farm and the Baltimore Free Farm, the Senate's amendments to the Farm Bill that would bar people convicted of violent crimes from receiving benefits for life, and fermentation with Sandor Katz.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 2-A veteran from the Baltimore ghetto tells how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 1-We continue the journey with Vietnam Veteran Homer Steedly as he meets with the family of the Vietnamese soldier he killed forty years before.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - We host a political roundtable to examine the week's events, including President Obama's speech yesterday outlining his administration's policies on drone warfare and Guantanamo Bay.
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 - Segment 3 - We analyze President Obama's messages to Black America, looking at his recent commencement speeches with Kai Wright, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, and Keith Snipes.
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss military culture in the wake of news that three high-ranking military officers tasked with preventing sexual assault were themselves accused of sexual assault.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 - Hour 1 - This week on Sound Bites, we learn about a study measuring arsenic in the chicken we eat, seed giant Monsanto's victory in the Supreme Court, and oyster restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay. Then, we talk to Michael Moss about his book on processed food and America's obesity crisis: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to a debate over the IRS and Tea Party scandal, with columnist and political analyst Edward Wyckoff Williams, and political analyst Lenny McAllister, who calls himself the "Working Man's Conservative."
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 1 - We get an update on the powerful, monster tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma yesterday, killing at least 51 people. While initial reports ranked this tornado EF-4, the second most powerful kind of tornado, there is evidence that the tornado might be upgraded to EF-5, indicating speeds over 200mph.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 2 - We talk national politics with the recent scrutiny and criticism of the Obama administration over the IRS scandal and the AP investigation with Ari Berman, Jordan Bloom, and Gabe Rottman.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 2 - Symbolie "Monique" Smith joins us. She shares her personal story of being abducted, exploited, and raised by a woman she came to find out later in life was not actually her mother.
May 13, 2013
May 14, 2013 - Segment 3 - We reflect on the life and death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, who was beat to death in an attempted robbery in Mexico City on Thursday, with Fred Hampton, Jr., Dr. Randy Short, and Dave Zirin.
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 -Segment 3 - Through a different lens, we examined the news last week that three women in Cleveland had been abducted and held in confinement for a decade.
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation about the current state of the labor movement. We look at local organizing in Baltimore around living wages and fair development and talk about the 45th anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign.
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 2- We discuss misogyny and violence in the context of recent news stories involving violence against women in Ohio and Baltimore.
May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 -Segment -2-Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report.com and Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University talked about Assata Shakur placing on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List.
May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013-Segment 3- Gar Alperovitz joined us to talk about his new book, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution.
May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's the latest episode of Sound Bites, featuring Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and a debate on whether or not genetically engineered foods should be labeled.
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013 - Segment 4 - In light of NBA player Jason Collins coming out as gay this week, we discuss LGBT athletes.
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - What would the purchase of the Baltimore Sun by the Koch brothers mean for the Sun and Baltimore?
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have a conversation about the ways racism has affected media discourse around the attacks on the Boston marathon last week.
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com staff writer, joins us to talk about his recent article "How Boston Exposes America's Dark Post-9/11 Bargain." O'Hehir argues that U.S. residents have traded their rights for alleged security, but in actuality have received neither in return.
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013 - Segment 4 - Last week, a bipartisan group of Senators proposed immigration reform legislation. We'll discuss it with Colorlines writer Aura Bogado and Charles Lollar of New Day Maryland.
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013 - Segment 2 - We're joined by Martha Rosenberg, writer for OpEdNews.org and author of Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health. Rosenberg discusses the ongoing situation in West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded last week.
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look at race and media coverage in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing with Steven Salaita, author of Anti-Arab Racism In The USA, and Matt Gertz of Media Matters.
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk about the national gun control bill that was killed last night in the Senate, despite early bipartisan support and a high percentage of public support for the measure.
April 17, 2013
April 17, 2013 - Segment 4 - Chloe Angyal, editor of Feministing and facilitator of the Op Ed Project, joins us to talk about her recent piece for the Nation, After Boston, One Foot in Front of the Other.
April 16, 2013
April 16, 2013 - Segment 4 - We speak with InsideClimate News reporter Lisa Song, who, along with colleagues Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer, just won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She will offer an update on the Arkansas oil spill.